Melvyn Bragg Movies

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...

An irreverent survey of British Music.

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the...

Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner....

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.

Scenes from Huston's "Moulin Rouge," archive footage of the original locations, a Lautrec exhibition at London's "Royal Academy" and interviews with...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male...

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.

Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

A documentary first presented on the South Bank Show in 1980 about the career of film director Roman Polanski.

Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable life and career, illustrated by a wide range of his...

Melvyn Bragg sets out to unravel the many questions surrounding one of the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figures: Mary Magdalene.

In this documentary Roy Lichtenstein is interviewed and discusses his life and art work, what influenced him, where his ideas came from, how his art...